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Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora is pleased to announce a conference
on "Slavery, Islam, and Diaspora" to be held at York University, Toronto,
Canada, Oct 24- 26, 2003. The conference aims at bringing scholars together from different
fields to share their knowledge on the themes listed below. Scholars working on issues
concerning Islam and slavery in various parts of the world are invited to send a title and
one-page abstract to the organizers at Nigerian@yorku.ca
by April 1st, 2003. Recent scholarship has revealed the extent to which enslaved black Africans influenced their host societies. The movement of enslaved Africans had an important impact in shaping the modern Muslim world and in leading to the conversion of many people to Islam. Likewise, enslaved Muslims from Dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam) occupied a unique place within the Atlantic slave trade, but their role has not been accorded the attention it deserves. Likewise, the role of enslaved Africans in the Islamic world deserves more attention. The conference seeks to look more broadly into slavery, diaspora and the Islamic factor from the early modern to the modern period. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for scholars to raise historical, theoretical, cultural and methodological questions dealing with the following themes: |
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1. Trans-Saharan Slave Trade 2. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 3. The Indian Ocean Slave Trade 4. Ethnicity and Slavery in the Muslim World 5. Gender and Slavery in Islam 6. The Literacy and Legal Tradition of Slavery in Islam 7. Emancipation and abolition in Islam 8. Slave Religious Practices in Islamic lands 9. Popular Culture of Slavery |
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distribute papers at the conference, an electronic copy of the presenter's paper, should
be submitted to The Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora by September
30th, 2003 at: nigerian@yorku.ca. For panel presentations, each participant will have a maximum of 25-30 minutes. Note that the bulk of this time will be spent in discussion and critique. You should therefore spend no more than twenty minutes outlining the basic arguments of your paper and leave the remaining time. |
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| Conference Organizing Committee: Chair: Paul E. Lovejoy, FRSC Distinguished Research Professor Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History |
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of History, York University, Toronto, Canada Email: nigerian@yorku.ca Fax: (416) 650-8173 |
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